Crisis In the Middle East

Iraqi-Kurdish Conflict

Period: May 19, 1919 to Mar 30, 2003

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-15467672
http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/whitepapers/gdc/TheKurdishQuestion.pdf

1963 Syrian coup d'état

Mar 8, 1963

http://m.thenation.com/blog/200313-march-8-1963-baath-party-seizes-power-syria
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Syrian_coup_d'état#Bibliography

Aden Emergency

Period: Dec 10, 1963 to Nov 30, 1967

http://www.psywar.org/aden.php
http://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/adenemergency.htm

Black September in Jordan

Period: Sep 1, 1970 to Sep 28, 1970

http://middleeast.about.com/od/jordan/a/jordan-black-september.htm
http://middleeast.about.com/od/terrorism/g/black-september-definition.htm

Turkish Invasion of Cyprus

Period: Jul 20, 1974 to Aug 18, 1974

http://www.moi.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.nsf/All/6F5DD418DD053ED1C2256D6D001E7571?OpenDocument
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2786705/the-day-family-fled-famagusta-life-changed-turkey-invaded-cyprus-1974.html

Lebanese Civil War

Period: Apr 13, 1975 to Oct 13, 1990

http://www.war-memorial.net/Lebanese-Civil-War--3.187
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/lebanon.htm

Iranian Revolution

Period: Jan 7, 1978 to Feb 11, 1979

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/909256/Iranian-Revolution-of-1978-79
http://schools.yrdsb.ca/markville.ss/history/obeyesekere/Iranian%20Revolution.ppt

Islamist Uprising in Syria

Period: Jun 16, 1979 to Feb 28, 1982

Grand Mosque Seizure

Period: Nov 20, 1979 to Dec 4, 1979

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112051155
http://www.aucegypt.edu/research/ebhrc/publications/Documents/Chronicles2012/12Article10NA.pdf

Iran-Iraq War

Period: Sep 22, 1980 to Aug 20, 1988

http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/iran-iraq-war.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/arabs/iraniraq.html

South Yemen Civil War

Period: Jan 13, 1986 to Jan 24, 1986

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/09/world/massacre-with-tea-southern-yemen-at-war.html
http://digilib.gmu.edu/jspui/bitstream/1920/3127/1/civil%20conflict%20in%20south%20yemen.pdf

Iranian Pilgrim Riot (Mecca Massacre)

Jul 31, 1987

This was a clash between Shia pilgrims and Saudi Arabian forces during the Hajj pilgrimage. Over 400 people were killed. Tensions between Shia Iran and Wahabi Saudi Arabia was the main reason this happened.
http://goo.gl/ChFpo9
http://goo.gl/ZKr7md

KDPI Insurgency

Period: Jul 13, 1989 to Aug 23, 1996

http://www.babylon.com/definition/KDPI_insurgency_(1990s)/English
http://www.wikisearch.net/search?q=KDPI%20insurgency%20(1989–96)

Gulf War

Period: Aug 2, 1990 to Feb 28, 1991

http://www.military.com/Resources/HistorySubmittedFileView?file=history_gulfwar.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/persian-gulf-war

1991 Uprisings In Iraq

Period: Mar 1, 1991 to Apr 5, 1991

http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2011/08/1991-shiite-uprising-in-southern-iraq.html
http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/jcs/article/view/4311/4924

Yemeni Civil War

Period: May 4, 1994 to Jul 7, 1994

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/yemen1.htm
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/652831/Yemen/45275/Civil-war-and-political-unrest

Operation Desert Fox

Dec 16, 1998

Operation Desert Fox was an operation to carry out bombing raids on places to hinder the development and production of chemical weapons.
http://www.defense.gov/specials/desert_fox/

Iraq War

Period: Mar 20, 2003 to Dec 18, 2011

http://www.history.com/topics/iran-iraq-war
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/870845/Iraq-War

Houthi Insuregncy in Yemen

Period: Jun 18, 2004 to Feb 6, 2015

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/yemens-forever-war-the-houthi-rebellion
http://www.historyguy.com/yemen_saada_war.htm

South Yemen Insurgency

Period: Apr 27, 2009 to Mar 19, 2015